Example Sentences

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By this point, many people were chiming in.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022

“People were chiming in,” as he ran, the official said, aiding the manhunt.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2015

The reviews were written in a way to make it appear as though they were coming from three separate people who were chiming in with their comments.

From Forbes • Dec. 10, 2013

From the slender wrists of these girls, tiny silver charms were chiming together.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

And I related M. Radisson's morning encounter with Lieutenant Blood, whereat Mistress Hortense uttered such merry peals of laughter I had thought the chapel-bells were chiming.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)